Online Afterlives
Autor Davide Sistoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2020
Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death—including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones—and discusses their philosophical ramifications. Sisto reports on such phenomena as the Tweet Hereafter, a website that collects people's last tweets; the intimacy of sending a WhatsApp message to someone who has died; and digital cremation, the deactivation of a dead person's account. Because we can mingle with the dead online almost as we mingle with the living, he warns, we may find it difficult to distinguish communication at a distance from communication with the dead. The digital afterlife has restored the communal dimension of death, rescuing both mourners and the mourned from social isolation. A society willing to engage with death and mortality, Sisto argues, is a more balanced and mature society.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780262539395
ISBN-10: 026253939X
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 201 x 137 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-10: 026253939X
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 201 x 137 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd
Notă biografică
Davide Sisto, a philosopher and authority on thanatechnology, is a Researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin.
Cuprins
Introduction
Digital Immortality
Death and Social Networks
Digital inheritance and hi-tech funeral rites
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Digital Immortality
Death and Social Networks
Digital inheritance and hi-tech funeral rites
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Descriere
"Anextendedessayexploringhowmoderndigitalculture-especiallysocialmedia-haschangedourunderstandingandexperienceofdeath,memoryandgrieving"--